We should get the names of these 900 sites that account for 50% of all
Web traffic.
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SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A., 1998 AUG 31 (NB) -- By Martyn
Williams, Newsbytes. Just how fast is the Internet growing? Alexa
Internet, which maintains a Web cache and database, says a survey
of its database indicates an average days sees 1.5 million pages added
to the World Wide Web.
The same survey also estimates the current Web is around 3 terabytes
and doubling in size every eight months.
Alexa maintains a database of Web pages as part of the service it
offers to users of its free Alexa service. Delivered through a small
application, the service offers Web users additional information on
each site delivered, such as site owner, popularity, server speed
and site size.
In addition, it offers a solution to those annoying "404 - Not Found"
messages by allowing users the ability to call up the most recent
copy of a page from its database. It is this database that the service
examined to come up with the figures outlined in its new report.
Other factoids found by the survey include the information that 90
percent of traffic is concentrated on 100,000 different host
computers, while just 900 Web sites account for 50 percent of all
Web traffic. It also estimated there are 20 million content areas,
defined as top-level pages of sites, individual home pages, and
significant subsections of corporate Web sites.
More information on Alexa and its browsing companion software can
be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.newsbytes.com .
Reported By Newsbytes News Network: http://www.newsbytes.com